Should I message a founder after they raise?

Comment and connect on the day, then wait. A useful message about three weeks later, when they are planning, gets more replies than one buried in launch-day congratulations.

Can the agent track funding news at my accounts?

Yes. The agent browses LinkedIn and the news on its own computer, finds funding announcements at your target accounts and returns each one with a comment and connection notes drafted.

Does anything go out without me?

No. The agent drafts every comment, connection note and message and shows them to you first. You approve, edit or skip each one, and it stays under the daily LinkedIn limits you set.

When a target account raises, be the useful congrats

When a target account announces a round, comment on the announcement with something specific, send the founders a connection request, and follow up about three weeks later with one useful thing for their next stage, like what peers at that size post or hire first. Right after a raise their inbox is full; a few weeks later they are planning.

Last updated: Oct 20, 2026
Written by: Sky Yang, Co-founder and CEO
How we wrote this: Written from how the Imagine AI agent runs this play on LinkedIn, with approval.

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When it runs

A target account announces a round.

One prompt. The agent runs the play.

The agent has its own computer and browser, so it finds the people and the news itself. It drafts every comment, connection note and message, and you approve what goes out. Use it when:

You sell to companies right after they raise.
Your best deals start when a team scales.
Your reps congratulate founders and then go quiet.

The skills behind this play.

The agent has its own computer and browser, so it does the legwork itself. Every skill is on for every play; these are the ones this play leans on.

[01]Used in this play

Writes in each person's voice

Drafts for the company page, founders, executives and employees from each person's best posts. Imagine AI started as the operating system for ghostwriting teams, so sounding like you is the core of the product.

[02]Used in this play

Has its own computer and browser

It does the legwork itself: finds the people, checks job changes, launches and funding news, reads the sources and fact-checks claims before anything ships.

[03]Used in this play

Engages for you

Comments, connection requests and messages on LinkedIn, aimed at the people your posts pull in who match your ICP.

[04]Used in this play

Runs one calendar for the team

Plan launches, sequence posts, schedule comments and edit together. Approvals sit with each person or route through one owner.

[05]On

Designs the graphics

Multi-image posts, infographics and visuals from your brand kit, made in its own sandbox, with the right people and companies tagged.

[06]On

Works from your content filesystem

Positioning, brand kit, decks, campaigns and compliance rules in one place it reads before every draft, remembered across threads.

[07]On

Turns what you have into posts

Events, podcast episodes, videos, decks and call notes become a week of posts across the team.

[08]On

Knows what works

Reads the public benchmark of 1,000+ B2B companies and tracks your competitors, so post types and formats follow your industry's data.

[09]On

Finds the buyers in your audience

Matches everyone who engages to your ICP and hands sales a worked list every week.

[10]On

Maps content to revenue

Connects to HubSpot or Salesforce and traces each closed deal back to its first content touch: post, person, deal stage moves.

[11]On

Plugs into your stack

Engager data over API and webhooks, and the benchmark over MCP for your own agents.

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Step by step

The playbook lives as a file the agent reads. Edit it once and every run follows it.

What you need

Your target account list.
The founders and leaders you want to know.
One useful thing for a company at their next stage.

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funding-round-congrats.md
icp-list-post-loop.md
post-engagers-to-pipeline.md
viral-post-pile-in.md
new-role-congrats.md

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Step 1 · Find the rounds

Ask the agent each week which target accounts announced funding, with the announcement post and who posted it.

Step 2 · Comment on the announcement

A specific comment about what they built to get here, not just congratulations.

Step 3 · Connect with the founders

A connection request with a short, specific note.

Step 4 · Follow up in three weeks

A message with one useful thing for their next stage and one question, once the congratulations have died down.

Fig. 02: The playbook as a file in your workspace.

Anatomy of the three-week follow-up

The outline, what to avoid and how to measure it, in the file the agent drafts from.

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Outline

1A callback to the round, one line.
2What peers at their new size did first.
3One question about their plan.

Example from the run above

Congrats to the whole team. Going from 4 to 40 customers in a year in a regulated space is no small thing.
Congrats on the Series B, Sarah. Have followed the compliance story for a while, would like to stay in touch.
Congrats on the round, Marcus! The seed deck post was one of the clearest I've read this year.

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